Thanksgiving Plans

[Snaggletiger]

BTW...Happy Turkey Day tomorrow to the X'rs. What's the plan for gathering and gourging out on bird?

Of course, it wouldn't be a Snags holiday if I didn't gather wth in-laws.  We go big but basic.  Turkey and honey-baked ham.  Sticky rice....GOTS to have my sticky rice.  Dressing and giblet gravy.  Turnip greens, cat-head biscuits and other assorted eats like deviled eggs.  Mucho sweet tea and pecan pie to polish it off. 

Watch the usual NFL suspects, Detroit and Dallas play during the day....nap.  Always a good day.

[GH2001]

Glad you called it dressing. Heard someone say stuffing yesterday and about went apeshit. No. It's not stuffing you fucking Yankee. Mmmm giblet gravy.

[AUTiger1]

Lunch consisting of ham, smoked turkey, broccoli, sweet potato and hash brown casseroles, dressing, giblet gravy, cranberry sauce, mustard or turnip greens (depends on what Maw-Maw wants), mac n cheese, deviled eggs and green beans.  Desserts will be pecan pie, strawberry pretzel salad, chocolate pie and lemon ice box pie. 

After that, family time, a good nap, some fooseball, more family time and more cat naps, get up eat again, drink a little bourbon, sit around, a little more bourbon and then off to sleep.   I love Thanksgiving.  Such a superior holiday to all the others.

[Snaggletiger]

Glad you called it dressing. Heard someone say stuffing yesterday and about went apeshit. No. It's not stuffing you fucking Yankee. Mmmm giblet gravy.

Gotta' get the sticky rice, dressing and giblet gravy all mixed together.  Not a huge fan of the cranberry sauce but just about everyone else at the table loves it. 

[Buzz Killington]

11:30 lunch with my folks, and 2:30 late lunch with the in-laws.  My pops is smoking about eleventy bajillion pounds of meat...turkey, ribs, chicken, pork butt, etc...  If I am able to roll myself away from their table I'll get to the in-laws and enjoy some candied yams and macaroni and cheese.

Then, after 3 days on the elliptical maybe I'll be back to my pre-turkey day weight.

[djsimp]

Wild Turkey and Turkey. This year its just gonna be just the immediate, but those numbers are probably
close to most of you and your extended family. I'm looking for some relaxation hopefully. Been working out of town for three weeks and ready for some comforting noise. Weird how that works.

[JR4AU]

Glad you called it dressing. Heard someone say stuffing yesterday and about went apeshit. No. It's not stuffing you fucking Yankee. Mmmm giblet gravy.

^^^This!  All of it. 

[JR4AU]

Smoked Turkey, and dressing "fixed" by brother.  Dressing must be done in that roasting pan that comes with an over that is deep in the middle, and shallow on the edges, to make crisp edges that I like, and the soupy shit my brother likes in the middle.  He eats dressing raw.  No sage.  Giblet gravy.  Fresh green beans on the side.  Cranberry dressing.  Yum yum. 

I almost look forward more to the leftover turkey sammiches...on white bread with Duke's mayo, salt, and pepper.

I make sweet potato casserole, with pecan (pronounced p'khan) and brown sugar topping.  (no yankee marshmallows)  And I'll make a pecan pie.   

[dallaswareagle]

We get to do our annual trek to Ft. Worth to go to my sisters She is unfucking aware that the Interstate system goes both ways. And then later we go to go north to my wife’s family. (They got like 4 kids) They too are unfucking aware of how the interstate system works. I know I could say no, but I try and keep the peace. I am sure she is making something, and I am bring beer (Lots of it)

[Tarheel]

BTW...Happy Turkey Day tomorrow to the X'rs. What's the plan for gathering and gourging out on bird?

Of course, it wouldn't be a Snags holiday if I didn't gather wth in-laws.  We go big but basic.  Turkey and honey-baked ham.  Sticky rice....GOTS to have my sticky rice.  Dressing and giblet gravy.  Turnip greens, cat-head biscuits and other assorted eats like deviled eggs.  Mucho sweet tea and pecan pie to polish it off. 

Watch the usual NFL suspects, Detroit and Dallas play during the day....nap.  Always a good day.

Pretty much all of that with my folks and my brother's family up in the Old North State...except no sticky rice...and little or no NFL...we prefer college basketball instead.


And a Happy Thanksgiving to all the Xers.

[JR4AU]

We get to do our annual trek to Ft. Worth to go to my sisters She is unfucking aware that the Interstate system goes both ways. And then later we go to go north to my wife’s family. (They got like 4 kids) They too are unfucking aware of how the interstate system works. I know I could say no, but I try and keep the peace. I am sure she is making something, and I am bring beer (Lots of it)

If you're not toting kids around, you're a second class citizen on holidays, and expected to travel. 

[dallaswareagle]

If you're not toting kids around, you're a second class citizen on holidays, and expected to travel.

I moved to Texas in 1994 from Ft. Campbell, KY, since then we have had T-day 1, One, Uno, Ein-etc at my house. We have gotten to a point we try and get out of town over the 4-day weekend, but our plans blew up this year.

It amazes me that the family's get mad us for being able to travel out of town, and throw a hissy fit when we don't come over. Yet I bet I can count on one hand the times they come up. FUCK EM.

And I get a double whammy cause next month my wife's sister and husband are staying with us. (Coming from South America.   

[Tiger Wench]

I make my grandmother's CORNBREAD DRESSING recipe.  Still not as perfect as hers, but the bar is really high, and every year I get closer.

We are going to my s-i-l-'s, my hubby's sister - the same one that has not spoken to me more than minimally required for nearly two years because of something that happened while I was planning her daughter's baby shower (and the kid just turned one).  The other sister in law and her husband (my hubby's brother) are not invited at all as the result of grudges being held more than 20+ years.

Honestly, I have not missed any of them - she is one of those people who are not happy unless there is ZOMG!!!!11!!!1 DRAMA!!!!! GOING ON ALL THE FUCKING TIME, and the internal drama levels within her own family are always at DEFCON 4. Her oldest child is a sociopath and a narcissist who was in rehab at age 15 and gave up her first baby at 16 and has disowned the family because they sided with her ex husband when he left her (he is her third baby daddy), her middle child is neurotic and the most normal of the bunch, which is not saying much (the 1 y/o is hers) and the son is a blue collar grease monkey who is getting married in three weeks to a girl with money but zero personality.  That wedding should be a hoot and a holler when those two families and their respective friends are mingled together in one room.  But I digress...

I have already decided that at the first catty comment, the first curse word, the first sign of anything other than a pleasant day, we are gonna make like a tree and leave.  Don't need it, don't want it, don't want my kids exposed to it.  We're gonna press on, and we're gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Thanksgiving since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny fucking Kaye.

I hate not having my own leftovers, so I am going to make a second pan of dressing, corn pudding, turkey and deviled eggs for my own family on Friday, plus whatever assorted desserts I feel led to create.

I am thankful for all my X brothers and sister - you guys make even the most shittastic football season of my life bearable.  XXOXOXOX!

[Snaggletiger]

Fortunately, our "traveling" is only about 5-6 miles from our house.  I personally like doing this kind of stuff at our house and have been trying to do more and more of it lately.  First off, the in-laws house is small and cramped.  And, if the temp outside is under 64...he's got this wood burning stove in the den that he blazes up to a temp just under that of the sun's surface.  So, after you eat until you're about to pop, there's only one thing to do....sleep.

[Jumbo]

My plan is to cash some checks and snap some necks.

[Snaggletiger]

My plan is to cash some checks and snap some necks.

ballah

[Saniflush]

Heading to the Warden's in a couple of hours and get drunk for the next couple of days.

[Tarheel]

Heading to the Warden's in a couple of hours and get drunk for the next couple of days.

I had thought about that too...

[dallaswareagle]

I make my grandmother's CORNBREAD DRESSING recipe.  Still not as perfect as hers, but the bar is really high, and every year I get closer.

We are going to my s-i-l-'s, my hubby's sister - the same one that has not spoken to me more than minimally required for nearly two years because of something that happened while I was planning her daughter's baby shower (and the kid just turned one).  The other sister in law and her husband (my hubby's brother) are not invited at all as the result of grudges being held more than 20+ years.

Honestly, I have not missed any of them - she is one of those people who are not happy unless there is ZOMG!!!!11!!!1 DRAMA!!!!! GOING ON ALL THE FUCKING TIME, and the internal drama levels within her own family are always at DEFCON 4. Her oldest child is a sociopath and a narcissist who was in rehab at age 15 and gave up her first baby at 16 and has disowned the family because they sided with her ex husband when he left her (he is her third baby daddy), her middle child is neurotic and the most normal of the bunch, which is not saying much (the 1 y/o is hers) and the son is a blue collar grease monkey who is getting married in three weeks to a girl with money but zero personality.  That wedding should be a hoot and a holler when those two families and their respective friends are mingled together in one room.  But I digress...

I have already decided that at the first catty comment, the first curse word, the first sign of anything other than a pleasant day, we are gonna make like a tree and leave.  Don't need it, don't want it, don't want my kids exposed to it.  We're gonna press on, and we're gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Thanksgiving since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny fucking Kaye.

I hate not having my own leftovers, so I am going to make a second pan of dressing, corn pudding, turkey and deviled eggs for my own family on Friday, plus whatever assorted desserts I feel led to create.

I am thankful for all my X brothers and sister - you guys make even the most shittastic football season of my life bearable.  XXOXOXOX!

The X-gate was the best part of this season.

Maybe with some changes we get fired up about next Season and wench and I will host a Texas size tailgate for the A&M game.

We should plan a (who's got the more fucked family get together) Reality TV should like it.

[AUTiger1]

My plan is to cash some checks and snap some necks.

Atta Boy!